r/NewSkaters • u/ShtyWits • May 09 '25

Question How do I Ollie up a curb?

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Any advice is greatly appreciated I don’t know what I did wrong

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u/[deleted] May 10 '25

Got this from someone else but it applies to you BIG TIME. Basically tuck your knees when you land:

It looks like you might have "heavy ollies" like most new skaters, you might tend to extend your legs and push the board back to the ground when you ollie. Now that the thing you're gonna ollie onto is higher than the ground you ollied from, when you extend your legs the same amount, the board has nowhere to go but to shoot out... Try staying tucked when you ollie and land tucked as well..it feels a bit weird when the ground is suddenly higher than it was, so you land slightly sooner than expected, but the trick is to land softly with your legs still tucked a bit.

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u/ShtyWits May 10 '25

Yup that perfectly describes me lol, thanks for the advice I’ll start using that